Just Waltz On In

Cornershop - Norwegian Wood

Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over the Sea

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Ballad Of Jim Jones

Morning

Rusty -Wake Me

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dawn

....Trail of Dead - Another Stoner Morning

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

In Journalism 101 we learned that a good article must answer the following questions. Who? What? When? Where? and sometimes Why?

Brian Jonestown Massacre-Who

 Pure- What it is

Idlewild- When I argue I see Shapes

Stratford 4 - Where the Ocean Meets the Eye

                                   

Hum- Why I Like Robins

  Although each of these song titles begin with a word normally associated with trying to get an answer, only the first song title may be a question.

I Like American Music pt. 30 of 50 - Loose Cryptic Connection pt 3

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dawn('s)

Earlimart - 10 Years

Television - Guiding Light

Life after the Brian Jonestown Massacre

    Anton Newcombe the mastermind behind the San Francisco band, Brian Jonestown Massacre, is notorious for being hard to get along with.  He fires or frustrates band mates until they quit at an impressive rate.  Of the 40+ musicians that have past through the usually 5 to 7-piece band, several have gone on to make some excellent music. 

   In Ondi Timoner's Sundance Film Festival 2004 Grand Jury Prize winning documentary DIG!, there is a scene where fed-up guitarist Peter Hayes and another band member quit the band and just walk away from the tour down the streets of Cleveland.  Hayes went on to form Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.  That name comes from Marlon Brando's biker gang in the movie 'The Wild One.  Hayes and BRMC co-founder Robert Been  had considered naming their band after the rival gang in that film, but being called 'The Beetles' may have caused some confusion.   

  Here is their song EVOL

           

   Ian Sefchik also had a limited membership with Newcombe's band before he reunited with his former high school classmate Sharky Laguna to record a couple of albums as Creeper Lagoon. 

    Brian Glaze was a drummer in an early incarnation of BJM, he now spends his Thanksgivings recording music with Greg Ashley of the Gris Gris.  He has recorded a few solo EPs and albums.  Here is a grooveshark link to the closing song on his third CD, Green Living.     Brian Glaze- Shake Shiloh

Fury of Trees

   In April 2005 I went to see the Northern Ireland band Ash at the Magic Stick in Detroit.  As their tour progressed one of the warm-up bands on the bill, The Bravery, surged in popularity so that by the time they reached Detroit, Ash was relegated to second band on and The Bravery became the headliners.  This actually worked out pretty good for me since I had to work that night and by the time the Bravery started their third song I had had enough of their style over substance approach and headed for the door and made it to work on time.

  Although Ash was pretty darn good,  the showstealer for me was the first band of the night, alaska!.  alaska!  formed by Imaad Wasif and Russ Pollard from the remnants of Lou Barlow's New Folk Implosion, and included drummer Lesley Ishino of the Red Aunts.    On this tour they were fresh off the release of their CD 'Rescue Through Tomahawk' .  The lead track on the disc 'Fury of Trees'  leads off this post's theme songs of trees.  Hope this link works  alaska! 'Fury of Trees'   

In late 2011, my wife and I observed our 25th anniversary.  While other couples celebrate such milestones with trips to Hawaii, or gifts of shiny minerals of high implied value but of little practical use, I took my wife to Cleveland.....the one in Ohio.   Yeah I know.  What was going on in Cleveland in December?  Beside the Christmas Story House Museum, we went to a hot dog stand/concert venue to see the Crystal Stilts.  Which brings us to their song  'Sycamore Tree'.    

   Rounding out this post is a song brought to us by the Committee to Keep Music Evil and their charter member the Brian Jonestown Massacre.  More about that band in the next post but until then here's their song 'Evergreen'